Corporate

• Corporate Governance
• Labor and employment
• Dispute prevention and resolution regarding corporate management
• Legal advice on corporate management
• Product liability
• Document management strategies for litigation (especially, U.S. litigation)
• Management of trade secrets

Litigation(JPN/US)

【JAPAN】

• Money claim (debts, sale price, contract price, draft/check, etc.)
• Damage suit (traffic accident, medical malpractice, product liability, etc.)
• Property related lawsuit (dispossession proceedings, dispute regarding leasehold, property lines and access rights, construction, etc.)
• Inheritance lawsuit (partition of the estate, distributive share reducing request, etc.)
• Intellectual property lawsuit
• Lawsuit relating to Unfair Competition Prevention Law

【USA】

• Patent lawsuit
• Trade secret lawsuit
• Others

Bankruptcy & Collection of Debts

• Adjustment of debts
• Bankruptcy (legal entities and natural person)
• Civil rehabilitation (legal entities and natural person)
• Corporate reorganization
• Collection of debts

Foreign Legal Affairs & International Transaction

• Legal affairs for expanding overseas presence
• International joint venture
• Litigation risk management in a foreign country
• Incorporation (incorporation of a Japanese subsidiary by an oversea parent company / incorporation of a foreign subsidiary by a Japanese company)
• International bankruptcy
• EU Laws
  • EU Competition Law (Regulations and directives)
  • Merger
  • EU Intellectual Property Laws (patent right, copyright, trademark right, trade secrets, etc.)
• American Laws
  • Intellectual Property Laws (patent right, copyright, trademark right, trade secrets, etc.)
  • Discovery proceedings (depositions, interrogatories, production of documents, etc.)
  • Trial
    • Jury trial
    • Bench trial
  • Summary judgment motion

Intellectual Property Rights

• Industrial property rights (rights of patent, utility model, trade mark, and registered design)
• Copyright
• Unfair Competition Prevention Law
• Trade secrets
• Computer software
• Entertainment law

Negotiation & Drafting of Agreements(JP/EN)

• License agreement
• Joint research and development agreement
• Franchise agreement
• Distributorship agreement
• Other agreements

Business Reorganization

• Corporate separation
• Capital tie-up (parent company/subsidiary, mutual shareholding, exchange of shares, etc.)
• Transfer of business
• M&A

Real Estate

• Drafting agreements (lease agreement, sales agreement, etc.)
• Lawsuit and mediation (dispossession proceedings, dispute regarding leasehold such as a claim for unpaid rent, confirmation on property lines and access rights, compulsory execution, etc.)
• Securitization of real estate